A very exciting end to a very fantastic year Lincoln Park  finish’s with a 30 and 1 record and the 4A state title against what most considered the best team in the state and the defending champs. Newman Goretti won the tip and went straight to the hoop for 2 then Brandon Cummings scores on Lincoln Parks first possession of the game, The Newman Goretti  Dukes hit a three and Lincoln Park then get four straight stops trialing 7 to 2 Brandon Cummings made a great move going from left to right and Meleek Thomas drills a three and the score is 15 to 14 the Dukes up. Magee hit a great over the shoulder flip of the ball as described by Bruce Frey to give Lincoln Park a 18 to 17 lead. With 6:33 left in the second quarter Meleek Thomas hits a 26 footer and DeAndre Moyle hits a 3 and is playing good defense  keeping the Dukes off the boards at the end of the second the score 28 to 28. Brandin Cummings scored the first 8 points for the Leopards in the third quarter  DeAndre Moyle goes in hard gets a big rebound and gets fowled and makes one the score is now 38 to 37 then DeAndre Moye hits a long  3 pointer to put Lincoln Park up by 40 to 38 with the Leopards on top Dorian McGhee gets a basket at the end of the third With Dontay Green and Dorian McGhee doing a great job on Newman Gorettis big 6 foot 8 inch big man, at the end of the 3rd quarter the score Lincoln Park 44 Newman Goretti 41. In the 4th quarter Lincoln Park moved into a two three zone because of fowl trouble and Newman quickly gets the game tied at 48 to 48, with 5;24 to go tied at 50 Brandin Cummings takes a pass from Meleek Thomas and Dunks 52 to 52, then they get the ball back and Meleek Thomas missed missed again rebounded again missed again rebounded again and scores. With the score 54 to 52 Dorian McGhee fowled out and Rashon Russell came in as the 6th man and played well.  For the Leopards. Meleek Thomas drives and shoots to make it 55-53 Lincoln Park in the lead with 1:30 left  Its again 58 to 58 with 47 seconds on the clock the Leopards ballthey call  call time out  with 20.4 seconds left to come up with a play and that they did, and the play worked Mellek Thomas hits a basket with about 10 seconds on the clock the Dukes had one more chance to tie and they missed 4 tips and Meleek Thomas finally comes down with the ball and they pummeled him he goes to the line for two shots makes them both the game is the Leopards with only .5 seconds on the clock Lincoln Park 62 Newman Goretti 58, the game was broadcast right here on 99.3 FM 95.7 FM 1230 WBVP/1460WMBA and around the world on  Beaver County Radio by Mike Azadian And Bruce Frey, stay tuned Friday 3-24-23 for Aliquippa boys  VS. Lancaster Mennonite at 1;30 pm and the Blackhawk girls VS. Lansdale Catholic Saturday at 11;30 am.